Boll Poems

Premium MemberAmerica Lost Its Innocence

...                                  7/14/2025

Oh, how could this have ever happened here?
A free naton with baseball, movies and beer?

Those days when other nations cry against the USA…….DIE?...
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Categories: boll, america, betrayal, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChildren of Abraham

...Children of Abgraham
                                      9/16/2023
                                 A Lesson for All Nations 



                      Years ago, before you were even here,
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Categories: boll, discrimination, freedom, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme


In My Left Armpit a Big Boll

...In my left armpit  a big boll
That made me with anger boil…

Then, nurse began to water boil.
“Please, don’t touch it now: let it boil…”

“But not like breakfast tea I boil!”

I’d prayed flui...
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Categories: boll, allusion, cry, fear, health,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLikeness Ssenekil: Part 1

...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew...
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Categories: boll, word play,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberSunday Funnies Iv

...super boll
boll weevil twin brothers:     one was great, one the lesser of two weevils

you killed my father, prepare to die 
three-legged dog in a saloon:      "looking for the man...
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Categories: boll, humorous,
Form: Monoku


Premium MemberRaking Leaves

...The trees know very well
And so do the limbs.
Nature tells the limbs
To release the leaves because
Their provisions of shadows
And shades have now ended.
The wind picks up and scatters
The lea...
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Categories: boll, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlowers For Mother

...Well you did that
No I didn’t you did
Nope it wasn’t me, it’s always you that is.
Boll#cks, it’s always you
You said it, you called her that and now I’ve got it to deal with!
Yeah… cos you said ...
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Categories: boll, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Right To Live

...Nobody here is God. However, we are to do good, not evil.
We save lives of animals, even the boll weevil!

Oh, how we weep over dead elephants!
But to save a baby from death, we say, I can’t !

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Categories: boll, abortion, america, god, how
Form: Rhyme

Fun Net Ticks and Sill Lab Buff Hick Aye Shun

...curt hissy Matthew Scott Harris
who wishes ewe well
to make $cents of the following
mumbo jumbo lettered gumbo.

Hip puck crease see
(ad hoc) key hide dee claim
haint how my noggin 
comports ...
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Categories: boll, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMenopause

...I see dark light in the sun
I will kick you in the boll#cks if you say ‘hey hun’
I don’t know, so don’t fu#king ask!
My body seems to be in several parts
Emotionally I’m an exploding star
Don’t ...
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Categories: boll, age, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Winter's Wishes

...In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled in the purity of security 
for what seemed like eternity 
a l...
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Categories: boll, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Cotton Pickers Lament

...Cotton Picker’s Lament


 
Feet burn soul blends with the earth, the heat, the picking season
Hands, hard calloused leather punctuated by picking scars
Drag that long sack behind me across blac...
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Categories: boll, black african american, slavery,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberSunny Days of Childhood

...Photo: RIVERVIEW AMUSEMENT PARK
                        ~POSTED BY MY GUARDIAN ANGEL~


We were just kids in silken ribbons and braids,
Playing cut-outs in Chicago's summers toasty shade.

The...
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Categories: boll, best friend, childhood, joy,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMister Pot Holder

...I have held my last pot of hot soup
I've come to the end of my threads
Befraggled and muffed
Bedraggled and fruffed
A raddled cloth corpse that's dead
Frayed so soft and shabby 
As the cotton b...
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Categories: boll, change, dog, funny, humor,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberGood While It Lasted-

...It was good while it lasted
After the fire ultraviolet
It was good while it lasted
The grass Is Always Greener
Terrestrial arena
Boll of cotton
Hope miss- mistrusting
It was good w...
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Categories: boll, absence, allusion, sad, visionary,
Form: Free verse

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